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宇宙学和星系形成的新前沿:未来的挑战

New Frontiers in Cosmology and Galaxy Formation: Challenges for the Future

Richard Ellis, Joseph Silk

摘要:

宇宙学在未来十年面临三个不同的挑战。(1)暗区,包括暗物质和暗能量,主宰着宇宙。关键问题包括确定两者的性质。改进观测探测器至关重要。(2)星系形成大约在再电离时期开始:我们需要了解如何以及何时形成,并开发早期时期的探测器。(3)我们简单的由暗物质驱动的星系组装图似乎与几个观测结果不一致,包括在高z处存在ULIRGS,“缩小”签名,α元素比率的化学签名以及合并可能对定义哈勃序列并不重要的建议。理解物理含义是理论家的一个主要挑战,而细化观测不确定性是观测者的一个主要目标。

英文摘要:

(Abridged) Cosmology faces three distinct challenges in the next decade. (1) The dark sector, both dark matter and dark energy, dominates the Universe. Key questions include determining the nature of both. Improved observational probes are crucial. (2) Galaxy formation was initiated at around the epoch of reionization: we need to understand how and when as well as to develop probes of earlier epochs. (3) Our simple dark matter-driven picture of galaxy assembly is seemingly at odds with several observational results, including the presence of ULIRGS at high z, the `downsizing' signature, chemical signatures of alpha-element ratios and suggestions that merging may not be important in defining the Hubble sequence. Understanding the physical implications is a major challenge for theorists and refiniing the observational uncertainties a major goal for observers.

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